It’s this kind of reporting by a respected magazine like America that proves how much the Internet has changed the media in the past dozen years. How long would an analysis like this have had to wait until it appeared in the print edition? How much more difficult would it have been to find these Politico articles — especially its “How the sausage gets made” piece on interaction between the media and the Obama campaign — without the Internet?

I know I’m stating the obvious, but finding this post on America’s blog (courtesy of my Google Reader) and the links that are in it was one of those “ah ha!” moments for me.